Marital Counselling and the General Practitioner

Seeking help for marital problems: the role of the general practitioner.

Marital disharmony is a widespread phenomenon but it is largely hidden. Research, however, suggests that of the people with marital problems more approach the general practitioner than any other professional. This preliminary study reports on the help-seeking patterns of a sample of 60 patients in primary care identified as having marital problems, and a comparison is made with patients with ho...

Introduction to marital pathology. Management:basic counselling.

Pædiatrics and the General Practitioner

I REGARD myself as being greatly honoured and privileged to give this, the first Stephen Garvin Memorial Lecture. I met Stephen Garvin for the first time more than thirty years ago, and all his subsequent lifetime I enjoyed his personal friendship and that of his family. Apart from our medical association we had a common interest in another of his activities and he taught me a great deal. He ha...

Monetarism and the General Practitioner

The government has decided that its monetarist policy should extend into the management of the NHS. In 'Working for Patients' the government outlines its policy which, in essence, is a blueprint for controlling the ever-escalating costs of health care. It seeks to exert this control by a two pronged budgetary approach, one at regional level and one at the basic provider level. The regional budg...

The Enquiring General Practitioner.

"Brother Toby," quoth my father, " I do believe thee to be as honest a man and with as good and as upright a heart as ever God created;-nor is it thy fault, if all the children which have been, may, can, shall, will, or ought to be begotten, come with their heads foremost into the world:-but believe me, dear Toby, the accidents which unavoidably way-lay them, not only in the article of our bege...